Comments on: Teaching students music repertoire http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/06/08/teaching-students-music-repertoire/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:57:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Roger Bourland http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/06/08/teaching-students-music-repertoire/#comment-33074 Roger Bourland Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:03:50 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/06/08/teaching-students-music-repertoire/#comment-33074 I met a person once who claimed to have NO interest whatsoever in music. He didn't listen to it, didn't like it, and possibly didn't actively listen to it even if it was in the air. I wish I knew where he was now so I could ask him some more questions. I met a person once who claimed to have NO interest whatsoever in music. He didn’t listen to it, didn’t like it, and possibly didn’t actively listen to it even if it was in the air. I wish I knew where he was now so I could ask him some more questions.

]]> By: PK http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/06/08/teaching-students-music-repertoire/#comment-33030 PK Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:04:52 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/06/08/teaching-students-music-repertoire/#comment-33030 How fires are lit, I wish I knew. I remember how my jazz passion happened. Around fourteen years of age, I was hanging around a bunch of ten year older people, who were jazz freaks. We would bob our heads to Coltrane's <i>Ascension</i> and the JCOA boxed set, but I was secretly fakin'. I didn't really get it but wanted to look cool. Then one night I was MOVED by a piece off one of Wayne Shorter's Blue Note albums. I bought the album which became a sort of Rosetta Stone. Flowing out to albums by the other players on the album, it took about a year before I heard <i>Out to Lunch</i> and flipped. Ascension, Cecil Taylor,Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp etc. were all close behind. People who are passionate about music have always been my friends, yet not everyone is (to my great surprise). I heard a paper in the last year, that mentioned a test result that pointed at one out of ten bobbing their head in confusion for life, secretly just not getting "it". How fires are lit, I wish I knew. I remember how my jazz passion happened. Around fourteen years of age, I was hanging around a bunch of ten year older people, who were jazz freaks. We would bob our heads to Coltrane’s Ascension and the JCOA boxed set, but I was secretly fakin’. I didn’t really get it but wanted to look cool. Then one night I was MOVED by a piece off one of Wayne Shorter’s Blue Note albums. I bought the album which became a sort of Rosetta Stone. Flowing out to albums by the other players on the album, it took about a year before I heard Out to Lunch and flipped. Ascension, Cecil Taylor,Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp etc. were all close behind.

People who are passionate about music have always been my friends, yet not everyone is (to my great surprise). I heard a paper in the last year, that mentioned a test result that pointed at one out of ten bobbing their head in confusion for life, secretly just not getting “it”.

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